{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[Essex Johnson]

(03-12-2025, 11:04 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: In terms of structures, I think we did alright.

Slaton has no guaranteed money next year (2026). Perine & Burks have zero Dead Money at all.

Ossai is a 1 year deal, nothing to be done there.

Gesicki only has a $2 mil in dead cap by year 3.

Hill's is not available yet.

OTC has us at $33 mil without Hill & Ossai.

We are getting down to the nub if a Jenkins deal gets done.

Releasing Moss adds a $3 mil.

But again, the failure to get Tee/Chase done and a Burrow restructure is likely costing us iver $30 mil on this year's cap. That is huge.

but the flip side, Tee gets hurt again, we probably saved $$ in long run by not signing him, Chase is the tough one, but for Bengals trade off is the guarantee $$, if they don't over pay there and a players gets hurt badly, you don;t have dead weight of paying a player that can't play... seems two sides to the coin here.  As for Burrow, he mentioned restructure but ive heard nothing else from Burrow on it.. so maybe it was just a pressure move, unless i missed something factual on negotiations.